Germans Quotes

218 Germans quotes by 177 unique authors

John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a… — Carl Bernstein
Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans. — Siegfried Sassoon
Germans make nice cars. — Jason Behr
The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it. — John Major
Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation… — Christopher Heyerdahl
Boy, those Germans have a word for everything! — Homer
Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about. — John Badham
Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black… — Adela Popescu
Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans. — Bill Nighy
The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air! — Thomas Carlyle
One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else — Will Rogers
The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education. — Joan Juliet Buck
In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse… — Jose Rizal
In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks , and Germans… — Hermann Hesse
Have fired 500 rounds at the Germans, at my command, been shelled, didn't run away thank the Lord and never lost a man. Probably shouldn't… — Harry S. Truman
That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera… — Winston Churchill
Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic...being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why… — Alan Coren
One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it… — Evan Davis
The Germans are clear about what they do - cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do - electronics; the Chinese… — Evan Davis
The Germans and I no longer speak the same language. — Marlene Dietrich
The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other. — Umberto Eco
We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if… — W. Averell Harriman

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